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Create a Fantasy Floating Green Planet Scene in Photoshop

Today you’ll learn how to create a fantasy floating island scene using various photo manipulation techniques. As well as creating a beautiful landscape, you’ll learn how to construct a detailed flying machine from scratch, using advanced drawing, texturing and lighting techniques.

Overall this tutorial will teach you important techniques for image blending, creating artificial lighting and how to use your creativity to manipulate every day objects and photos.

This is a great hidden gem within InDesign, which not a lot of Graphic Designers know about. The tutorial is less than 2 minutes, and is an incredibly quick method, for rapidly adding dummy text into an any type of indesign document. This is a great little time saver, which I’m more than certain you will use very frequently.

Members Area Tutorial: Create a Fiery, Dynamic Basketball Photo Manipulation

In this advanced tutorial we will be creating a high-energy sports themed design that is full of color, motion and depth. Using an image of a basketball player as the focal point, we will use various light effects, custom brushes and vector artwork to build up a detailed composition.

This is essential if you’re ever working on a magazine, newsletter or any other print work, which requires page numbering. This method of using master pages to number pages within a document is a huge time saver, rather than having to go through the process of manually inserting page numbers. Each time a new page is created it automatically adds the page numbering in the identical position as the previous page.

Members Area Tutorial: Create a Beautiful Mixed Media Portrait in Photoshop

Digital art is great, but it can begin to look a little generic after a while. Sleek photo manipulations become a little dull if that’s all you ever create.

Luckily, it’s possible to design some more creative looking designs using Photoshop. This includes mixed media style work, that emulates the work of non-digital compositions.

Today’s advanced tutorial will teach you how to create a beautiful mixed media portrait effect.

You can use this effect for high-end client work, but it could equally be an amazing way to impress your friends and colleagues by converting your personal photos across social media. Why not bring your portfolio site’s about page to life with a super creative mixed media self portrait?

Online HTML5 tools are very useful for web developers as they can make their work a lot easier. HTML5 tools are a perfect way to incorporate audio, video, fonts, animations and graphics into web pages. HTML5 also helps web developers build responsive website themes. Want to know more about HTML5? Look at these 10 Useful HTML5 and CSS3 Forms Tutorials.

Video Tutorial: Creating the Photo Manipulation ‘Birth of a New Era’

Today I’m hugely excited to share our first ever video tutorial for FanExtra members. Video tutorials are something that many of you have been asking for and we plan on releasing a lot more video content to follow this first tutorial.

If you enjoy this video and find it easier as a learning method than our regular written tutorials then please let us know in the comments below.

Mobile phones and tablets with internet browsing capabilities are so popular these days that one of the strongest website trends right now is responsive web design. A responsive website is built to give your readers an optimal reading experience even though they use laptops, tablets or a mobile devices. If you’re looking for pre-designed responsive Drupal themes, this article will be very useful to you. Want to know more about responsive designs? Read this Top 10 Responsive Web Design Tutorials article.

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Parallax scrolling, is used to create an animated illusion of depth and it is getting pretty popular in web design. Want to know how you can achieve the same effect in your designs? The tutorials and plugins below will surely help you better understand this technique. Want some more inspiration? You should see these 10 Parallax Scrolling Websites.